Now Japan is stumbling and China is the rising power, though its prime focus is internal stability.
Indeed, before the 9-11 attacks, Mugniyah was the prime focus of American anti-terror efforts, not Bin Laden.
Though Williams, Azarenka and del Potro were all in attendance, Nadal was the prime focus of the morning news conference.
U.S. lawmakers raised this issue with ZTE and Huawei officials during committee hearings, though their prime focus was on network security.
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Even as France has played key roles in international hot-spots in places like Libya and Syria, not to mention during the pan-European debt crisis, the domestic economy has been a prime focus of the election.
In fact, bottom line, I think that keeping America Shariah-free has to be a prime focus for all of us who care about our country - not just some national security-minded folks, but all of us.
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One of the Alliance's repeated themes is to focus prime blame for world tensions on the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel--which at the U.N. tips over almost invariably into singling out for condemnation the state of Israel.
My undivided focus as prime minister is on acting to make Britain a fairer, safer and more prosperous nation and, in particular, on guiding the country through the current economic difficulties.
But a deeper question forming in my mind as I listened to the Prime Minister came into sharper focus during the interview I have just completed with Mr Francis himself.
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That storm will now switch its focus to the prime minister who will face one question again and again from his own MPs and activists - what on earth do we do about UKIP?
Speaking to the BBC, the prime minister urged voters to focus on which councils delivered the best value for money, stressing more Conservative-run councils had taken advantage of Whitehall subsidies to freeze council tax in the past three years than those controlled by other parties.
While Warren Christopher had to cope at once with second-tier crises like Bosnia, Haiti and Somalia, Albright is free to focus on the prime challenges to American security ahead: attaining a democratic, capitalistic Russia and handling a rich, restless China as it aspires to superpower status.
The Office's popularity in NBC's prime-time lineup reveals a focus on working and striving in a time when the stakes are high.
But our focus today, as the Prime Minister said, was on preparing our alliance for the future.
Business' relationship with the EU was last in focus in January when the prime minister called for a referendum.
The furore surrounding the threats to GSK investors prompted the Prime Minister to call for a greater focus on protecting "decent people" from animal rights campaigners.
Jay, the last time -- the few times the President has met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, much of the focus was on the Middle East peace process.
Later, after meeting Del Ponte, Macedonia's Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski said that one investigation would focus on the activities of government forces in the village of Ljuboten near Skopje, where six ethnic Albanian civilians were killed in August.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi should be thankful that her main focus lies elsewhere.
Between winning Labour's leadership in 1994 and becoming prime minister three years later, Mr Blair's focus was on making Labour electable, not on what it would actually do in government to improve public services.
And from a security standpoint, obviously Afghanistan and Pakistan and how that is all interrelated in that area of Asia, particularly with India, will be a big focus of what the President discusses with the prime minister then.
But in return for his participation the prime minister has demanded a change in the campaign's focus.
This time around, it's going to focus on branches, though it will continue to originate prime mortgage loans and commercial real estate loans.
When it comes to security, Census should focus on protecting its Web server, which is a prime hacker target, said Mike Zboray, vice president and research director of network security at Gartner Group.
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After estimated GDP growth of just 1.7% in 2007, down from 3.9% in 2006, there would be a very strong temptation for the prime minister to put further budgetary cuts on the back burner and focus instead on stoking the economy rather more.
Energy will be the focus of the next summit in Derry in 2013, with Irish prime minister Enda Kenny predicting the export of wind power to Britain.
As prime minister of the presidency holding nation, David Cameron has said he wants to focus on combating trade protectionism, cracking down on tax havens and promoting greater government transparency.
All eyes will now focus on the president's speech to the UN on Thursday and the prime minister's key conference speeches to the TUC on Tuesday and the Labour conference three weeks later.
Critics say the prime minister has torn up the government's promise to re-balance the economy, to focus on "making things again", and stop putting the City first.
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